The Office of Career Counseling

Cari-Esta Albert ’80 is an independent producer working on projects ranging from the life story of a Sudanese child soldier turned star rap artist to comedic horror story set during a high school reunion.

Reuben Albo ’05

Education and Teaching

Reuben Albo ’05 is originally from Trinidad. Teaching has always been a passion of Reuben’s and since graduating from Williams he has done private tutoring, SAT teaching, college counseling, and substitute teaching. He is currently a Special Education teacher in California.

Education and Teaching & International

Molly Bourne ’87

Molly Bourne ’87 majored in Art History at Williams and went on to obtain a Master's degree from Syracuse University in Florence, Italy which, eventually, led to her career as an Art History teacher in Florence, Italy.

Nora Burns ’04

Nora Burns ’04 joined Gardner Nelson from Robinson, Lerer & Montgomery, where she worked in crisis manage- ment and corporate communications.

Jeremy Da ’03

Jeremy Da is a professional drummer and currently runs his own translation business specializing in legal translations for law firms in the financial field.

Charles Davies ’95

Charles Davies works with the United Nations Secretariat, and is currently posted as a Programme Management Officer with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Bangkok, Thailand.

Emine Fetvaci ’96

Emine grew up in Istanbul, Turkey and graduated from Williams in 1996 with a double major in Art and Economics.

Chris Geissler ’06

Chris Geissler is a Senior Research Assistant at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C.

Journalism, Print and Broadcast

Duarte Geraldino ’00

Duarte Geraldino joined NBC 4 in December 2003. His wide range of reports can be seen during NBC 4's evening shows.

Advertising and PR & International

Anna Gunning ’06

Based in the UK, Anna puts her academic background in international relations to good use working in international PR.

Noah Harlan ’97

Noah Harlan is the co-founder of 2.1 Films, a New York production and development company through which he has produced or co-produced five feature films and numerous documentaries, television and branded content projects.

Betsy Wright Hawkings ’86

Betsy Wright Hawkings graduated from Williams with a double major in American Studies and Art History. For over 20 years she has lived and worked in Washington, DC. In March 2010 she was appointed Chief of Staff to Congressman Michael R. Turner.

Michael Henry ’04

Mike Henry is a Legislative Specialist in the Office of Government Affairs at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), based in Boulder, Colorado. He also interned for former U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes of Maryland during the summer after his first year at Williams, made possible through a Williams-funded Mead Scholarship.

Book and Magazine Publishing

Cheryl Herman ’94

Cheryl Herman began her career in book publishing with the literary agency, Curtis Brown, Ltd., shortly after graduating from Williams College with a B.A. in English and History.

Allyson Hightower ’95

Advertising

Allyson is Project Supervisor at Gardner Nelson & Partners. After earning her BA with a double major in art history and psychology from Williams College, Allyson decided to bring her new understanding of people and art to the world of advertising.

Kevin Hinton ’89

Kevin Hinton is Manager, Business Projects at Discovery Education, Bethesda, MD. Discovery Education is the national leader in digital video and multimedia-based learning.

Mireya Hurtado ’00

Mireya Hurtado is the Director of the Office of Hispanic/Latino Affairs at the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS).

Alvaro Jarrin ’03

Alvaro Jarrin was an international student while at Williams. He is studying for his PhD at Duke.

Aaron Jenkins ’03

Aaron (AJ) Jenkins is a Legislative Aide for United States Senator John Kerry focusing on Medicare, Medicaid, disabilities, HIV/AIDS, and health insurance issues.

Eric Kaye ’92

Eric Kaye is a composer/producer /musician, and is currently the Executive Creative Director/Partner of the Lodge, a music production company with offices worldwide.

Journalism, Print and Broadcast

Dan Keating ’84

Dan Keating was part of the Miami Herald team that won the Goldsmith and Pulitzer prizes for investigative reporting in 1999 for exposing vote fraud.

Margaret Kim ’91

Margaret Kim is Director, Historical Programming for The History Channel. She also serves as Executive Producer for many of the network’s series and specials.

Ivan Manolov ’05

Ivan worked for two years in New York City as a crude oil options trader before enrolling into Princeton University to pursue a graduate degree in Public Affairs.

Wit McKay ’78

Arts

Wit McKay is a freelance photographer and artist in New York City. He graduated from Williams with a double major in History and Studio Art.

Kelly Murphy ’04

Since graduating in 2004, Kelly Murphy has worked as an actuarial analyst at Guy Carpenter, a Marsh and McLennan Company that operates in the reinsurance broking industry.

Social Services and Non-Profits

Julie Nessen ’82

Julie is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Young Entrepreneurs Alliance (YEA). YEA’s mission is to empower low opportunity teens to turn their lives around through business ownership, job training, financial education, academic, and social support.

Enrique Perez ’01

Enrique serves as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Housing & Economic Development for the Patrick-Murray Administration in Massachusetts.

Sarah Repucci ’98

Holding a master's degree in European Studies from New York University, Sarah now works in Berlin as a Senior Research coordinator at Transparency International.

Journalism, Print and Broadcast

Grace Rubenstein ’01

Grace Rubenstein is staff writer for Edutopia, the magazine of the George Lucas Educational Foundation. She writes about innovation in public education across the U.S. and will soon be editing a small health section in the magazine.

Esa Seegulam ’06

Science & Technology

An international student from Tobago, Esa majored in biology while at Williams. He lives in St. Louis and is working on his PhD in Molecular Cell Biology at Washington University.

Kurt Shaw ’93

Before founding Shine a Light, Kurt spent almost two years working with grassroots groups in El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia, using his Fulbright Fellowship to study the relationship between contemporary French phil- osophy and Liberation Theology.

Gillian Sowden ’06

Health Professions

Gillian was an international student from Scotland at Williams. Currently in her final year of medical school, she begins a residency in psychiatry in the summer of 2011.

Social Services and Non-Profits

Anim Steel ’94

Anim graduated from Williams with a double major in Astrophysics and History. He is now Director of National Programs at The Food Project, a Boston organization with the mission to “create personal and social change through sustainable agriculture”.

Zuzana Tothova ’01

Health Professions

Zuzana's career goal is to become a physician-scientist focused on understanding of the pathogenesis of human malignancies that may lead to improved treatment options for patients. At Williams she was an international student from Slovakia.

Social Services and Non-Profits

Dena Zaldúa-Hilkene ’98

Dena Zaldúa-Hilkene is Manager of Annual Giving at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, where she has worked since 2002.